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Status: online, lights still blue

Ships code.
Loses to lamps.

Soy Luis, a developer from Chihuahua who writes software de día and fights his own Philips Hue lights de noche. Fueled by late-night burgers, powered by café, and currently losing a war against a lamp that only knows how to be blue.

// the receipts

burgers

Cesar Burger runs

Las Apestosas, Chihuahua. No ragrets.

0lights off

Philips Hue, right now

They are blue. They are always blue.

9+months

PR in draft status

"Add rules to cursor app" since Sep 2025.

2:47AM

Peak productivity

The bugs come out at night. So do I.

// now - the field logunfiltered, mostly nocturnal
TONIGHT

Tried to turn off the bedroom lights. They went blue instead. Negotiating terms of surrender. Otra vez.

THIS WEEK

Closed Capybara Foods at midnight, reopened tab at Arché Coffee Lab. Tec de Monterrey neighbors think I live here. I might.

ONGOING

Dinner was a burger from Cesar Burger again. "Las Apestosas" is in the name and I keep coming back. La cena de campeones, supuestamente.

SEP 2025

Opened PR "Add rules to cursor app". Marked it draft. Told myself "just for a sec". The sec is ongoing.

// selected work (loosely)

Add rules to cursor app

draft

A pull request of legend. Opened September 2025 on @geraalvarezf, lovingly marked draft, and left to mature like a fine cheese nobody asked for. The rules are good. The courage to click 'Ready for review' is not yet in scope.

pull requestdraft since 9/25geraalvarezf
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luis's light

broken

A Philips Hue setup that has achieved sentience and chosen violence. It exists in exactly two states: aggressively blue, or off when I need it on. Years of "smart" home. Zero working light switches.

philips hueperpetually bluesend help
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The 2 AM burger run

shipped

My most reliable deploy pipeline: code until the build breaks, drive to Cesar Burger "Las Apestosas" in Chihuahua, return with grease-stained clarity. Ships on time, every night. The only thing in my life that does not sit in draft.

cesar burgerlas apestosas100% uptime
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// field notes
A moody close-up of a late-night cheeseburger lit dramatically in the dark
// fuel

Cesar Burger, Las Apestosas

The late-night burger that has carried more deadlines than any framework. "Apestosas" is in the name and yet here we are, 2 AM, again, in Chihuahua. No regrets, only grease.

A calm capybara sitting and looking relaxed
// the office

Capybara Foods & Arché Coffee Lab

Two spots near Tec de Monterrey where the actual work happens. Capybara energy: calm on the outside, 14 tabs and a failing build on the inside. The capybara has it figured out. I do not.

A moody espresso cup in a dark cafe
// the coping mechanism

Espresso, served nocturnally

The Arché Coffee Lab order is whatever keeps the screen readable past midnight. Sleep is a feature request. It is in draft. Right next to the cursor PR.

// luis's light - live demo

The smart home that outsmarted me.

Years of Philips Hue. Hundreds of dollars. The lights have exactly two moods: moody blue or completely off. Warm white? Never met her. Try the button. You will not win.

Go ahead. Try to fix it. I'll wait.

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